From erupting volcanoes to Elon Musk’s satellites: the art of Caragh Thuring

In her east London studio Thuring offers a cup of tea and a chocolate chip biscuit and says, "We are living through a moment of hellish, mindless destruction." The room is scattered with paintings, magazine cuttings and a cryptic handwritten note reading "AWARENESS, TESTING", metal racks holding crumpled tubes of paint.

Before us hangs a work around seven feet high and five wide in which shadowy silhouettes of US military airplanes are flanked by dense clusters of bombs, one plane’s tapering body transfiguring into the effigy of a knight laid out on a table tomb. For the past 25 years Thuring has painted submarines that glide, brooding volcanoes, proliferating windows, tartans and brick walls, moving fluidly between styles while returning to recurring motifs.

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